Police recorded hate crime
recorded for the previous financial year. This ensures that the total count of offences in any given year
is correct. This analysis includes 22 forces15 that supplied data of sufficient quality to the Data Hub.
Overall, 2.8 per cent of hate crimes originally recorded in 2015/16 were subsequently transferred or
cancelled. Most of these (2.2%) were cancelled and 0.7 per cent of crimes were transferred to another
police force (compared with 3.0% and 0.5% for non-hate crime offences respectively; Appendix table
2.06).
These proportions varied considerably by offence group. Of the three offence groups most commonly
flagged as hate crimes, public order offences were most likely to be cancelled. In 2015/16, 2.3% of all
hate crime flagged public order offences were cancelled compared with 5.5% of non-hate crime
flagged public order offences (Appendix table 2.07).
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Avon and Somerset, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cleveland, Devon and Cornwall, Dyfed-Powys,
Gloucestershire, Gwent, Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Merseyside, Metropolitan Police, Northumbria, North Wales,
South Wales, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Thames Valley, Warwickshire and West Mercia.
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